London – On Sunday, July 19, at 6 p.m., the Chelsea Physic Garden will host Mia's Fable (La favola di Mia), a performance by Italian artist Alice Visentin. The project originated in Frassinetto, a mountain village of around 200 residents north of Turin, where Visentin and a group of friends gathered last summer at the home of the artist's grandmother, Vincenzina Collavo, seeking refuge from the summer heat. During their stay, the temporary community created a collective visual narrative spanning more than 90 meters of paper, which participants painted, cut, assembled and rearranged into a story centered on Vincenzina's dog, Mia. Originally a stray rescued in southern Italy and transported north through a volunteer relay network, Mia's largely undocumented life is reimagined through a shared act of storytelling. Visentin's artistic practice has long explored the mechanics of moving images and the ways stories are assembled and dismantled. In Mia's Fable, a hand-operated scroll transforms the drawings into a form of analog cinema, with the simple gestures of winding and unwinding bringing the narrative to life. Fragmented visions of Mia's life emerge and disappear, embracing a deliberately non-linear structure that shapes both the creative process and the audience's experience. For its London presentation, Visentin is joined by performer Verity Coward and interdisciplinary artist Magda Antoniazzi, whose original score – created using only a synthesizer and cassette recorder –accompanies the unfolding performance. Repeated throughout the event, the soundtrack divides the work into three chapters, much like recurring musical themes in a film. The appearance of an oversized silhouette of Mia marks both the opening and closing of the performance, echoing cinematic opening and closing credits and reinforcing the work's dialogue with the language of film. Mia's Fable is produced by the Italian Cultural Institute in London, curated by independent curator and writer Ben Broome, and presented in partnership with the Chelsea Physic Garden. (9colonne)